President Nasser's Responses to Peace Immediately After the 1967 War

Download or read book President Nasser's Responses to Peace Immediately After the 1967 War written by Michael Sharnoff and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis seeks to examine Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser's perceptions of and responses to peace in the immediate wake of the June 1967 War. While much scholarship has been devoted to Nasser, there has been surprisingly little in-depth analysis of how he viewed peace with Israel in the post-war period. By thoroughly investigating recently available primary sources in Arabic and English this thesis seeks to provide a clearer understanding of Nasser's mindset and attitudes towards peace with a view to determining what, if any, potential opportunities existed for ending Egypt's conflict with Israel. -- By way of doing so, the thesis documents Nasser's perceptions and responses to peace from June 1967 to December 1967. Primary sources including speeches, interviews, minutes from meetings, letters, radio and television appearances, memoirs, diaries, and newspapers were consulted as well as many archival documents from the British National Archives, the British National Library, National Archives at College Park, Maryland, the Library of Congress, Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, Lyndon B. Johnson Library, and the Archive of Foreign Affairs of the USSR (now the Russian Federation). -- The thesis reveals a four-tiered diplomatic and media strategy aimed at preserving Nasser's power and buttressing support for Egypt and the Arab cause. This consisted of Nasser's public declarations; his private diplomatic meetings with foreign politicians and leaders; the Egyptian media's propaganda campaign; and Egyptian diplomatic efforts. Each of these elements conveyed conflicting interpretations of peace, thus raising the possibility that Nasser was more interested in maintaining his unique leadership role in the Arab world than in regaining the territories captured by Israel.